Example sentences of "had [art] last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whitton pulled ahead five minutes later when he cantered through a demoralised defence to shoot home unopposed , but it was Shakespeare ( who else ? ) who had the last word , breaking the strikers ’ monopoly with the eighth goal , 10 minutes from the end .
2 The Scouse always had the last word .
3 Emburey and Stevenson nudged their singles , but Holding had the last word .
4 Three minutes from the end Saints had the last word when Cherry 's powerful drive squirmed out of Marshall 's hands trickled in at the post .
5 Though Huw Davies had the last word in that game , Gallagher 's work at the back of the line-out was missed .
6 He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success .
7 Stephen had the last word with a shot which flew inches past the top corner .
8 On training matters , Annie deferred to her husband ; on everything else , she had the last word .
9 At least the Scots had the last word .
10 But Kiwomya had the last word , capitalising on a slice of good fortune to make his birthday celebrations complete .
11 ROBIN Smith , Hampshire 's defiant middle-order maestro , yesterday had the last word in his summer-long bitter duel with Waqar Younis .
12 And you do n't fall asleep , as you are inclined to do if you try to be an absorbent sponge , soaking in what the authors say as if they had the last word .
13 On the other hand , he had the last word whenever he cared to have it , not just on foreign or defence policy but on any aspect of policy .
14 She bit her lip on a response , conscious that he had , once again , had the last word .
15 FORMER Sheffield Wednesday striker Steve Whitton had the last word — snatching an equaliser with only seconds to go for Ipswich at Bramall Lane .
16 Comrades however had the last say when Dean Gordon grabbed a consolation goal for them on the stroke of full time .
17 Tynemouth had the last say , however , when a poorly taken 16 metre hit out by Alderson was met by Malcolm Hall who weaved his way into the area to finish the score Tynemouth 's third .
18 And hundreds of steam fans who see diesels as the soulless railways ogre of the modern age certainly had the last chuckle at Holyhead .
19 But the old soldier had the last laugh .
20 On 9 April , this neglected reality had the last laugh .
21 Grover Cleveland had the last laugh about reports of siring a bastard son a decade before his 1884 campaign .
22 The trouble was , neither of us had been here before and Holyhead Mountain in the gathering gloom emphatically had the last laugh .
23 Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh .
24 But he had the last laugh — the Blades dumped Manchester United 2–1 on the opening day !
25 Well , who was it who had the last laugh now ?
26 But former Blueman David McCallan had the last laugh on Linfield with a brilliant winner four minutes from time to put Bangor into the Bass Irish Cup semi-finals for the first time in 25 years .
27 Thankfully we had the last laugh when that french fellow ( I ca n't remember his name ) scored the winner .
28 Then suddenly , and sweetly , she began to realise that , since Travis was no more to her than a good friend , and she was still going to have her job at the end of all this , when it finally did end , it was going to be she who had the last laugh — and not N. Massingham Esquire .
29 Simon Wigg says that everybody was laughing at him because the bike looked so different but he had the last laugh … won the title and that 's what it 's all about …
30 Pool had the last laugh in the FA Cup a few weeks later .
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